单词 | to take or make strides |
释义 | > as lemmasto take or make strides b. transferred and figurative. Esp. in to take or make strides: to make progress. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress furtherc1200 profit1340 to go alongc1400 to get forward1523 advance1577 proceedc1592 to take or make strides1600 to get on1655 to get along1768 to get ahead1807 to be well away1821 to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923 ramp1980 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make good progress to go or run on wheelsc1547 forge1769 to be off and running1823 to be well on one's (also the) way1900 to take or make strides1926 1600 J. Chamberlain Let. 22 Dec. (1939) I. 113 Mistris Pranell is like to make a wide stride from that she was to be countesse of Hartford. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Simplicity flies away, and iniquity comes at long strides upon us. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vi. 175 I said I had never heard of one taking such a stride at once, as from the top of the kirk of Scotland to the top of the church of Rome. 1791 W. Hutton Hist. Derby 285 Having now got into the political world,..he made rapid strides towards preferment. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 170 Our narration is now about to make a large stride, and omit a space of nearly seventeen years. 1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. x. 384 The newly split stones..had scarce been yet worn down to smoothness when already the stride of a railway began to cover the ground. 1914 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 580/2 Stride by stride the village has closed in on the modest manor. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 21 Great strides have been taken in this field too during the last twenty years. 1934 Discovery Dec. 362/2 Photography for all purposes has made immense strides latterly. 1956 J. B. Wilson Lang. & Pursuit of Truth i. 14 The development of a good system of notation made it possible to take great strides in our mathematical knowledge. 1976 Field 18 Nov. 979/1 Great strides have been made in short term forecasting in the last five years. < as lemmas |
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